05/02 ARISE AND SHINE INITIATIVE

1)NAME OF THE INITIATIVEARISE AND SHINE2)LEGAL STATUS OF THE INITIATIVECHURCH BASED PROJECT

3)LOCATIONCOUNTRY – KENYA

COUNTY – NAKURU TOWN – NAKURU REGION – NAKURU EASTESTATE – FREE AREA –KIRATINA4)MANAGEMENT
STRUCTURE1.CHAIRPERSON2.SECRETARY3.TREASURER4.CO ORDINATOR 5.PATRON6.COMMITTEE7.DEPARTMENT OFFICERS5)PERSON RESPONSIBLE:REV. JOSEPH OJWANGMAGARO6)CONTACTSP. O. BOX 13892 -20100, NAKURU, KENYA
–EAST AFRICAPhone:+254 727
867 545, +254 771 559 000Email addressjomshalomcentre@yahoo.comA.VISIONARISE AND SHINEB.MISSIONvChild evangelism, engages, listen and respond to needs of children
in our society.vTo reproduce Godly,spiritually and God fearing children
in our nation irrespective of where they were born, culture and tribe. C.OBJECTIVES1.To build up children and the community
spiritually through evangelism initiatives to enhance social understanding and
good morals.2.To interact and engage with the less
advantaged children in the mentioned or identified slums and streets and create
a platform where they can equally access education awareness, basic needs, good
health, proper sanitation and related responsibilities.3.To create awareness on HIV/AIDS, offer
psychological support to children living with HIV/AIDS hence preparing them to
face life challenges despite the happenings.4.Create opportunities for children from
poor families to excel in life through their active engagements in education,
evangelism, volunteer wok in the church and in wider community, special
activities, small groups and social events at Shalom Christian Centre.5.Seek ways to support and celebrate
diversity in our children.6.Celebrate all loving and committed
relationships with children with in an intention to give them hope that the
future hold before them.7.Nurture the care –giving culture at
Shalom Christian Centre that includes opportunities for active caring for our
children for each other and beyond our congregation.8.Strive to effective systemic change by
addressing the root causes of their problems with the idea to eradicate poverty
and educating them and others to create long –term solutions while addressing
immediate needs and crisis situation when appropriate.9.Break down walls created by
denominations or church based organization with the aim to build bridges with
other churches and secular communities working collaboratively to address areas
of greatest need.10.Better connect our congregations’
passions and gifts with opportunities for action.D.MY PROFILEI am a Kenyan citizen born and grew up
in a rural area. I got saved when I was working in the medical sector. Later joined
a local church in our village where I grew up spiritually. After two years serving God in the local church as lay leader in –charge of evangelism and
Sunday school leader. I received a call from God to preach and
evangelize when I was 30 years old. In 1990 I resigned from secular job to joined
a NairobiPentecostalBibleCollege where attained
second class honor diploma in theology. After graduation from the Bible College
I went back my local church to serve God as an associate pastor, a position I
held until I was appointed by the board of governor’s to serve God in the local
church as a senior pastor. In 1996 I was appointed to head a mission team in
coastal strip and northeastern province in Kenya where I served as a
missionary to unreached people group; these regions are dominated by Islamic
faith and paganism. I have also had a privileged to serve God as regional
coordinator in charge of secretariat, bishop’s personal assistance, and
evangelism and Sunday school coordinator.I am also an alumnus of the famous JCC
School of Ministry for advanced leadership in Kenya
–Mombasa.I am currently the senior pastor of
Shalom Christian Centre Nakuru Kenya.
I do conduct training for Sunday school teachers, child evangelism, train pastors
and believer’s on how to growth local church and church planting. It is on this background that the
passion to conduct child evangelism, child education support and health care
was born. The burden was as result of meeting young and very potential children
who drop out of school due to lack of fees, medical condition, etc. leading
them to unnecessary failure in life that could have been avoided. It was a
clear call to respond to the cry of young children who are crying for help in
our society. The cries of these children prompt me to start a support project
for the few I could manage with the limited resources I received from the local
church as my monthly income.I
have a passion to reproduce godly, spiritually and God fearing children in the
society and in our nation irrespective of where they were born, culture and
tribe. And this can only be achieved through child outreach.I
am married with 5 lovely and beautiful children, two boys and three
girls.E.PROJECT BACKGROUNG

Arise and shine is a church based initiative
in NakuruCounty
(Kenya) East
Africa, started with a sole aim to address child evangelism and
enormous challenges facing thousands of children in our communities and nation
at large. Our children in many occasion are prone to many difficulties
especially at the tender age and if not address early enough may cause harm,
leading to a missed out opportunity in life hence ruining their lives where
most opts joining malicious groups creeping in our society. Most of these
children are from poor families, orphans or others who have been made
vulnerable by the epidemic caused by HIV and AIDS and other illness leading to
death of their parents.

Arise and shine focuses on child
development, we incorporate churches, schools, community and other likeminded
organs. Beside evangelism; we also create awareness, educate and care for children
especially from poor families. Our feedback being child innovative performance
and increased child hope. Child health care and school fee facilitation for children
from poor families, orphans and others who have been rendered hopeless due to unpredictable
calamities is among our project concern.

Our mandate is to help make children
at their tender age be more productive and responsible, raise them up in the
fear of the Lord, thus improving education and social well –being of a Kenyan
child.

F.Core engagements:

i)Child
evangelismii)child educaticn iii) Child health careiv)Child awareness creation v)Child rights advocacy This is believed to enhancing a peaceful and sustainable
developed in the community.G.CHALLENGES FACED BY
CHILDRENØLack
of parental mentorshipØSchool
dropouts ØChild
abuseØEarly
child prostitution ØLack
of basic needsØSocial
virtues ØChild
employment ØLack
of access to good health and sanitation ØSubstance
and Drug AbuseH.Risk Analysis High expectation for the beneficiaries.-Arise and Shine implementing team will try to make sure that the
beneficiaries understand the scope of the social activity (project) and its
budget to avoid confusion in the whole process.I.Plans for Continuation
(Sustainability)Through trainings and other interventions, the
project will strive to build the community capacity to implement the lesson and
sustain the network and partnership build during the project implementation
period. Arise and Shine will strive to collaborate with various likeminded organs in
both government and non-government institutions at the local, national and international
level. The project will ensure
that the community structures involved are linked to stakeholders to ensure
sustainability. To guarantee funding of the project by any interested donors. In
addition, we also intent to build capacity of the community in training its
residents on issues of children. We
believe that given the opportunity this project will benefit most
disadvantageous children, families, communities, churches and our nation at
large. It will give hope to the hopeless children.J.Monitoring and Evaluation Formative Evaluation will be conducted thorough interviews and open
ended questionnaires based on planning and risks assessment. Will maintain a
tracking list to assess the progress of the project with regards to the overall
plan.The project team will also conduct regular
review of activities related to the overall plan and promote article feedback
from staff, volunteers and beneficiaries. Source of success form will be used
by the beneficiaries to inform the project on changes that have happened since
the first interaction with the project participants. Analysis form and other
tools will be used to evaluate the success of the project.At the end of it, the findings will be shared
with donors and other stakeholders including the beneficiaries. The project
team will meet regularly with the executive to share finds. A documentary shall be prepared and shared
across all involved organs.K.Project
target The project targets to reach as many
children as possible in the communities surrounding the church and its
environs. With the availability of resources we anticipate that every quarter
during schools vacation Arise and Shine shall conduct massive child evangelism,
recruiting more children in our program and engaging them in positive
activities like sports, church program, dancing etc. to change their perception
in life. in our program we plan to increase their number on quarterly basis to 20
children. This is because we have limited resources to sustain them but if get
an adequate resources the number shall increase to 50 per quarter. Currently we
have over 60 children in our program. Some get little support other do not due
to limited resources in our disposal. But we are hopeful for better days for
all of them. This project targets:-i)Orphans
and Vulnerable childrenii)Street childreniii)Church and entire community childrenTarget Areas.1.KIRATINA / DAFRA.2.BLANKETS3.FREE
AREA4.MUROGI People in above slums are low income
earners who live in less than a dollar per day. Most of them depends on handouts,
small income business, selling vegetables, farm produce, casual jobs that
cannot be predicted or sustain them in life. In many occasion, this has failed
them forcing their parents not to meet the basic needs causing young children
to seek employment as maids, sex workers or engaged in early prostitution in
order to survive in life exposing them to child abuse.

CHILDREN IN OUR PROGRAM

The children whose photo appeared below are
involved in our program and 12 of them have been identified by our team for
support. They are in pathetic situation and dire need for school fees, medical
attention, food, clothes etc. some have drop out of school due to accumulation
of tuition fees or illness, other may drop out of school anytime or die if urgent measures is not put
in place to remedy the situation. We have selected the few who are in terrible
need at the moment the number may go up.

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CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD

The
project will significantly reduce and mark changes in many children’s lives,
community attitude and perception toward poverty and enhance positive
engagement into serious child evangelism and education.

However,
marginalized and affected children will highly appreciate the tremendous effort
the donors and friends support towards promotion of child evangelism and
education hence improve their livelihood in the community.

Moreover
the church and the community will positively contribute towards the unskilled
labour this will be an entry point for communities working together with the
church. In addition, church capacity building on child evangelism and education
in the community will highly be enhanced by this project.

The
project nature of identification, design and implementation will successfully
assist communities other locally based schools into participation and
successful management of other projects in future.

APPENDIX We
trust you will find this request plan as authentic, visionary and bold as our
beloved church need it to be. While we have laid the direction for the work to
be done, it is you –the friends, donors, individuals –who will help us
deliberate on the issue mentioned herein and implement them.